Kerbal University: Beating the Heating

I now have a discord server!   / discord   Addendum doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19... A user on youtube by the name FastandFishious kindly provided me with a pastebin of their own independent research into the thermal model, which was a great help for corroborating my research, and helped me get unstuck several times when I was running in circles. I transcribed a cleaned up and edited version of that pastebin in the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19... It's time for the big one, the thermal system. I really struggled to figure out exactly how much info to include, and as such this doesn't get quite as into the deep nitty gritty as the drag cube video did. Even so this took an insane amount of time to put together, mostly due to how difficult it was to even figure out a lot of this stuff and develop charts that accurately model the behavior. Hopefully, this inspires all sorts of thermal related shenanigans. I learned a lot of new things while working on this and hopefully I can create some cool missions with what I have learned. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ad Infinitum:    • Royalty Free Retro Synth - Ad Infinitum //...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Redemption:    • Royalty Free 80s Synth - Redemption // Cop...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Sakura:    • Royalty Free Synthwave - Sakura // Copyrig...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Symbolic:    • Royalty Free Synthwave - Symbolic // Copyr...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Undercover:    • Royalty Free 80’s Synth Theme - Undercover...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Vintage:    • Royalty Free Nostalgic Synthwave - Vintage...   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Video Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:33 Understanding debug data 2:38 Environmental temperatures 4:43 Convective heating 9:15 Radiative heating 11:45 Conduction 13:38 Example - heatshield vs heatshield 16:03 Exploiting the model 17:50 Example - Heat immune craft 19:55 Outro